Surprise Eurocom Tornado F7W Laptop

Eurocom has taken the wraps off the Tornado F7W, the brand's latest high-end mobile workstation powered by an Intel Core i9-9900K octa-core processor and Nvidia Quadro P5200 graphics.

The Tornado F7W is a heavy-duty mobile workstation with a black aluminum case and a backlit keyboard. It comes with a 17.3-inch matte screen and Eurocom offers two display options. The Full HD (FHD) option ($3,499/£2399) has a TN panel (Chi Mei N173HHE-G32) with a 120Hz refresh rate, 3ms response time and 94% coverage of the NTSC color gamut. The more expensive UHD option ($3,669 / $2,516) uses the IPS panel (AUO B173ZAN01.0 I) with a refresh rate of 60Hz, a contrast ratio of 1,000:1, Adobe sRGB color gamut coverage of 100%, and brightness of 400 nits ( Contrast and the brightness of the TN panel is not easily available).

Eurocom calls the Tornado F7W a fully scalable laptop. It features an LGA1151 slot for modern desktop processors and a modular mobile PCI Express module (MXM) 3.1 design for workstation-class Quadro graphics cards. The notebook is based on the Intel C246 chipset and therefore supports a variety of Coffee Lake processors, such as the recently introduced Intel Core i9-9900K and Core i7-9700K processors, as well as the previous generation Core 8000 series chips. Processor support is also extended to the six-core Xeon E-2176G and E-2186G components.

As a workstation in nature, the Tornado F7W is only available for Nvidia Quadro graphics options. Sorry, the game player. The notebook uses the MXM 3.1 module and measures 82 x 105mm. Consumers can equip the Tornado F7W with a Nvidia Quadro P5200, P420 or P3200 graphics card.

The advancement of Samsung's 16Gb paved the way for high-density 32GB SO-DIMM modules. The Tornado F7W features four DDR4 SO-DIMM memory slots for up to 128GB of memory at speeds up to 2,666MHz. Only a few laptops on the market are designed to support ECC (error correction code) and non-ECC memory, and Eurocom's Tornado F7W is one of them.

The Tornado F7W mobile workstation is equipped with three M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 slots and two 2.5-inch SATA III bays, so consumers can have up to five physical drives and can scale up to 22TB of storage. Supports RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 configurations, using traditional 2.5-inch SSDs and RAID 0, 1 and 5 to configure NVMe SSDs. The Tornado F7W is equipped with Thunderbolt 3.0 port, 5 USB 3.1 ports, 1 Mini DisplayPort 1.2 and 1 HDMI 2.0 port. As a result, laptops can output up to four monitors of video for increased productivity.

According to Eurocom, the Tornado F7W also has a wealth of security features. Consumers can use smart card readers, TPM 2.0 modules, fingerprint scanners and BIOS disk encryption to protect data. Eurocom even offers "anti-hacking packages" that basically remove the laptop's webcam, microphone and wireless connection.

Tornado F7W is available for purchase on the Eurocom website. The basic configuration starts at $3,499 (£2,399).